Dissertation Checklist Supplement (review)

295 2. Dissertation Checklist Supplement Gernot U. Gabel and Gisela R. Gabel. Dissertations in English and American Literature; Theses Accepted by Austrian, French, and Swiss universities, 1875-1970 (Hamburg; Gemot Gabel Verlag, 1977"ΠΓ8 DK. Any project which retrieves and collates the work of previous writers is welcome, especially in light of increasing duplication of earlier efforts by dissertation authors. Gemot and Gisela Gabel have assembled a 200-page, 2170-item bibliography of dissertations on English and American literature accepted by Austrian, French, and Swiss universities from 1875 "to 1970, a project aimed, by their own admission, at filling a lacuna: "The bulk of dissertations in the field of English studies has come under bibliographic control," but those accepted by universities in these three countries have largely been neglected. The volume is arranged chronologically by literary period, beginning with a brief catch-all section on literary history and criticism, proceeding through British literature from the GId English period to the present, and ending with two sections on American literature. Separate indices by author and subject provide additional access to the listings. The compilation is clearly inspired by the works of Mummendeyand McNamee, both of whom are acknowledged in the preface. Gf particular interest is the number of dissertations on ELT writers. The Gabels list 216 dissertations on 55 SLT authors; the most frequently studied are Shaw (16) , Galsworthy (14), Conrad (13), Lawrence (12), Hardy (11) , and Viilde (11). These six authors account for 77 titles, about 3.5/* of the 2170 listed . McNamee lists 656 dissertations on the same six authors, as follows: Shaw (110), Galsworthy (34), Conrad (I6I) , Lawrence (143), Hardy (178), and wilde (30) , about 2.2£ of the 29,963 titles. Clearly, Austrian, French, and Swiss scholars have shown considerable interest in ELT authors and in 19th- and 20th-century British authors generally (888 titles, or 41$ of the Gabels' volume). The work fills the void it identifies and should be helpful to students of the ¿LT period. The edition unfortunately has been limited to 200 copies, a restriction that will prohibit its acquisition by every library that supports graduate English studies, where it has rightfully earned a place. East Texas State University Glenn Irvin ...